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What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow carries a time-shifting pull, placing traditional bluegrass back in the hands of...
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With Salt River, Sam Amidon blends Appalachian folk roots with subtle electronics and jazz-inflected textures. With an unintrusive voice, he...
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With Bagola, their debut full-length solo album, Trio Da Kali presents a powerful blend of heritage, harmony, and heartfelt artistry....
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The charge of Club Tounsi comes from the ground up. Street noise, hand-played drive, coded repetition. AMMAR 808, Tunis-born, Copenhagen-based...
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The cover of Femi Kuti’s excellent new album Journey Through Life is a collage assembled from photos of Femi, his...
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Salif Keita said ‘no’ for many years to recording an album as spare and stripped-back as So Kono, released on...
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Yarın Yoksa (“If There Is No Tomorrow”) is Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek’s fourth studio album, a heartwarming and groovy...
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Kuunatic is the Japanese trio of Fumi Kikuchi on keys, Shoko Yoshida on bass, and Yuko Araki on drums. All...
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Viaje Sideral (AYA Records) by El León Pardo is a musical spaceship rumbling through a psychedelic universe where cumbia rhythms...
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Established collaborators, Malian kora master Ballaké Sissoko and British-Italian songwriter Piers Faccini deliver a delicate duo album for close listening,...
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All Living Things by the Korean multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha (tak:til/Glitterbeat) takes the listener on an introspective journey, seamlessly balancing traditional...
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In this joyful and profound debut album Celia Wa nods to the past and future, as well as both sides...